#abya yala

[hollytanaka]

Breaking news from Panama! 🟢

In a historic vote, the nation’s highest court today ruled the Minera Panamá mining contract for an open-pit mine unconstitutional, marking a WIN for biodiversity, local communities, and our planet. Panama has an opportunity now to be a leader in safeguarding precious ecosystems and protecting biodiversity. This ruling champions the rights, voices, and well-being of local communities over profit-driven interests. This victory is also a beacon of hope for our planet’s future. Safeguarding irreplaceable ecosystems like these is critical to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss. Congratulations to the people of Panama, who overwhelmingly rejected profit over planet. We continue to stand with you! Video credits: Collaboration between @duletvindigena @waguafilms @mullu.tv & Passu Creative Community Indigenous Protester - TV indígena and waguafilms Great Green Macaw - Hans Norelius, CC BY 2.0 Gemini's Dart Frog Jaime Culebras / @photowildlifetours #PanamaTeQuieroVerde #PanamáValeMásSinMinería

[astraphel]

On October 12, 1492, Columbus arrived on the shores of the Caribbean, the now-called Bahamas, and the Taíno people welcomed him and his crew with respect and great care. Their kindness was repaid with vicious cruelty and enslavement. 

The horrors of genocide left no one untouched on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, but the Taínos were the first to encounter this scourge. There aren't enough people who call them by name and claim a ubiquitous "indigenous peoples" encountered Columbus. 

Know and name the Taíno and the ways they suffered as a result of First Contact. 

And also the ways they have persisted and survived to this day. Check out the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP) / Confederación Unida De El Pueblo Taíno (CUPT) as a place to start.

The Taino peoples are not a monolith and include many different tribes and areas.

Image 1: Cristobal Colón, 1893 "La gran batalla que tuvo el almirante con el Rey Guarionex y cien mil indios en la Vega Real" | Wikipedia

Image 2: "Distribución de los arahuacos taínos, caribes y guanahatabeyes en las Antillas, en el tiempo de la llegada de los españoles." | Wikipedia

[anti-zionist-jew]

I had to start a new blog, so I figured I would reintroduce myself.

My name is Zara. I’m a Black Ashkenazi Jewish woman, 36 years of age, who grew up in one of the oldest majority Black synagogues in occupied Turtle Island (USA). Being a Black woman, and a Jewish woman, have shaped my entire identity and walk through life. I am proudly Black and Jewish. I have been on the “birthright” trip, and can attest first hand how that is two weeks of pure Zionist propaganda, and how none of this is about Judaism.

We do not need a country to all be shuffled into in order to be safe. Israel does not protect Jewish people, and it never has. Palestinian sovereignty is not and never will be antisemitic, and From the River to the Sea is not a call for genocide against the Jews. It is a call for liberation, a declaration of decolonization. Is “from sea to shining sea” a call for genocide? Or is it a declaration that the land from the Pacific to the Atlantic is the USA?

White westerners get to hide their antisemitism by “supporting Israel” and thus supporting the idea of shuffling Jews to the Middle East. They get to claim they are protecting a historically marginalized people, while sticking us on the other side of the world, where they can “be over there, and they can fight amongst themselves far away from us”

Israel is a settler state. They came in and murdered people to steal their homes. Occupied the land. Began controlling all access to resources. And then started committing genocide when Hamas retaliated. What Hamas did is not just unsurprising, it was inevitable. Tell me that you, in Podunk USA would let people come steal your house. Tell me you wouldn’t use the “stand your ground” or “castle doctrine” to shoot the thieves coming to rob you. Tell me you’ll voluntarily give your home to an indigenous American. You simply cannot. Explain to me how Jews living in Israel who stand against genocide are being arrested, beaten, exiled from their communities. Explain to me how they’re not an ethno state when they do not legally recognize interfaith marriage.

Israel is an apartheid state, Israel has its hands in the worst atrocities the world over. Yes, white Jew reading this in Brooklyn, what is happening to Palestinians will always be far worse than the pro Palestine protestor calling you a colonizer when you inserted yourself against their cause, and then wanted to pretend you were attacked for being Jewish. Zionism ≠ Judaism, and the world knows that now.

Even in the context of those arguments to indigenous to the land, please read a single book or paper published by an indigenous scholar. Multiple people can and are indigenous to the same regions.

Anyway, it’s Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free the Sudan. Release the chains from all oppressed and colonized people. Agitate, educate, organize. And long live the intifada

[gravedangerahead]

Lil Pataxó warrior 🥹🤏🥰☺️🥺

[tortiefrancis]

gaúcho solidarity artwork for Palestine. i've seen many amazing works by fellow artists in solidarity with Palestine and i wanted to join with my culture, a part of it, which i love dearly. do rio ao mar, liberdade ao povo palestino!

[ ID: Digital, stylized artwork of a man with light medium tone skin, dark brown eyes, medium length, wavy, brown hair and a beard, facing forward while holding a Palestine flag. He wears a red bandana with a kufiya leaf pattern, a white shirt, a red handkerchief tied around his neck with a road kufiya pattern, a short, black vest with red and green embroidery, a red fabric belt with yellow stripes and black pants. Behind him is a yellow sky with the sun above him. The background is light green with black text on it, reading: "Do Rio ao Mar". /End ID ]

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I recently found out that Native People in the American continent have their own name for it, which is Abya Yala.

Anyway, wouldn't it be nice if we started to support their right for self determination and freedom from the oppression of colonial rule? Wouldn't it be nice if we support the complete and immediate abolition of all colonizer countries, which are *checks notes* every single country in the American continent plus the island ones? Wouldn't it be nice if we started telling all the settlers, conquistadors and immigrants to Go Back To Where They Came From? Wouldn't it be nice if we started chanting in the streets and online for the cleansing of the continent from all non-Native people? Wait, that sounds kind of extreme, doesn't it? But what if it rhymed? Everyone knows that if it rhymes it's true and justified right? So maybe the American continent should be free, you know, maybe from shore to shore... no, no. From sea to sea, that's it! What a great cause! And great causes are worth fighting for by all means, right? Obviously, I do not support violence at all, but like wouldn't it be justified if Native People were to become violent in their fight for freedom? I mean, think of the history for a moment, what brought them to this moment? And could you blame them? After all, shouldn't freedom be fought for by all means necessary? Wouldn't you support their claim?

Anyway.

From Sea To Shiny Sea Abya Yala Will Be Free.

[fotodiario-honduras]

Calles de Olanchito, Yoro

Honduras, Centro America

[perritamarika]

desvelo.

lancé un EP ♡ desvelo. se trata de un viaje que explora la trauma generacional, nacido de siglos de colonialismo en Abya Yala, y el largo y complejo proceso de sanación.

i released an EP ♡ desvelo. consists of a journey that explores the generational trauma that stems from centuries of colonialism in Abya Yala and the long and complicated process of healing from it. pueden escucharlo en bandcamp, spotify, youtube, soundcloud gracias a todes que le han dado un vistazo ♡ thank you to anyone who's given it a listen ♡ if you want to support me, here's my ko-fi

[ydiehard]

Digital "Abya Yala" Tierra del paraiso

[hollytanaka]

The people of Panama are coming together to defend nature, calling on the country’s Supreme Court to declare a controversial mining project – in the protected rainforest Bosque Donoso – as unconstitutional.   This area, lying in the heart of the largest biological corridor in Mesoamerica, is a lifeline for many migratory species. It is critical to the livelihoods and cultures of local and Indigenous communities, and is home to wildlife that includes macaws, tapirs, monkeys and jaguars. This mining activity would have destructive impacts on the surrounding ecosystems, species, and people.   A global spotlight can help Panamanians win a critical victory for biodiversity and can pave the way for a more sustainable future.   Sign the petition to halt the mining project in Panama at this link: https://chng.it/dMzbJSxv7v   #PanamaTeQuieroVerde #PanamáValeMásSinMinería

Video credits: Collaboration between @duletvindigena @waguafilms @mullu.tv & Passu Creative Community    Narrated by @rosedelizg Cover photo by @enlayesk507

[momaie]

Niamakala: a presença feminina na preservação dos legados ancestrais pelos caminhos entre África e Abya Yala

Niamakala: a presença feminina na preservação dos legados ancestrais pelos caminhos entre África e Abya Yala

Niamakala: a presença feminina na preservação dos legados ancestrais pelos caminhos entre África e Abya Yala Cuanta belleza y fuerza! El 07/10 (viernes), eres nuestr@ invitad@  para participar de la mesa de intercambio de ideas“NIAMAKALA: LA PRESENCIA FEMENINA EN LA PRESERVACIÓN DE LEGADOS ANCESTRALES EN LOS CAMINOS ENTRE ÁFRICA Y ABYA YALA” Con mediación de Alma Velásquez…

[gravedangerahead]

[tortiefrancis]

Want to share one resource with you guys I think is quite interesting: An online course created by Universidade de São Paulo (USP) regarding Palestinian and Brazilian solidarity and our similar struggles, via Editora Tabla's YouTube channel.

This course has already ended, but the videos are still up on their channel. There's a total of 15 classes, featuring Palestinian and Brazilian academics, researchers, activists and more, including, as well, Brazilian-Arabs.

The videos are all in English, to be as accessible as possible for both a Brazilian audience and a Palestinian audience. I highly recommend taking a look if you're interested in this topic!

[tjeromebaker]

#Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Entrevista a Dra. Francesca Gargallo (1956-2022)

Feminismos desde Abya Yala. Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América La escritora, novelista, historiadora de las ideas, incansable filósofa feminista nuestramericana, Francesca Gargallo, entrega a las sociedades de esta parte del mundo su nuevo libro, Feminismo desde Abya Yala. Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América. La obra, una…